Claude Monnet

DJ Producer
A&R: Basic Traxx / SSOH / Analog

Claude Monnet Biography by Martin Solveig

After 20 years of mixing, Claude Monnet truly deserves his nickname of the godfather. This is no big surprise for those who know about his taste for Coppola's & Scorsese's films, for elaborate cuisine and odd looks. Claude is actually of Italian origin, although he was born in Lyon and started hunting around for old vinyls and playing in the local clubs in France and across the Italian border from the age of 16.

His carreer really started in St Tropez in 1986 when he was resident in two famous clubs : Le Bal & Pigeonnier. Soon after he started playing in clubs in Paris and all over the world (the long list of which you will find added at the end of his article).

Indeed Claude Monnet hasn't just been a DJ year after year, he has been producing his own music and coming out with his own labels (SSOH, Mixture & Basic Trax). His latest singles ("Nu Jazz Soul" & "Oduduwa Story") are evidence of his eclectism, of his maturity and ability to get nightclubbers to groove on jazzy, african, powerful and spicy rythms which are the main foundations of his music. Indeed, he is influenced by various and multiple types of music : soul, funk, jazz, ethnical sounds, disco, hip hop.

Added to these 20 years of labor & melodic pleasure, he was blessed with the birth of his adorable offspring, "Gianni". Claude has everything that he could wish for to start this new millenium in the most favorable conditions to carry on his work on sound and vibration.